Monthly Archives: September 2011

I love the site stats you get from WordPress. This morning I noticed that, in the 9 months that I’ve been writing this blog, nearly 200 people have come to my site after searching for the term “OGR2OGR” in a … Continue reading →

So (along with half the world, it seems), I grabbed myself a copy of the Windows 8 Developer Preview earlier in the week and have been trying to get to grips with it, both as a user and also with … Continue reading →

Like, it seems, many people, I’ve spent some portion of today downloading and playing with the first preview version of Windows 8, released in the early hours of this morning. You can grab the release either from the windows dev … Continue reading →

Remember Grand Theft Auto (the first one)? It was one of the first free-roaming top-down driving games, and looked a bit like this: How about Metropolis Street Racer? The Sega Dreamcast game was one of the first to allow you … Continue reading →

I came across a curious error earlier today when attempting to use a SqlDataReader to read a column of geometry data from a SQL Server table: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.SqlGeometry’ to type ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.SqlGeometry’ SqlGeometry to SqlGeometry… … Continue reading →

Today is John Snow day. Not Jon Snow, the Channel 4 news presenter, but Dr John Snow, the man widely recognised as the father of modern epidemiology. His statistical analysis and pioneering use of maps to understand the cause of … Continue reading →